Click the link below to complete the activity:
Steps to converting any research question into search term/query:
Question elements | Keywords | Search Terms | Search Strategies |
Saltwater | |||
Tsunami | |||
Plant growth | |||
Seacoast |
4. Execute the search in a library research database such as Science or OneSearch
Before you begin researching for supporting documentation from articles about your topic have a good idea of what you are searching for. This means:
A. How are geneticists working to change plants to adapt to water of higher salinity? Which plants are they working on and why? Explain how this relates to your experiment.
B. If you live in a seacoast area that receives saltwater from a tsunami, can you grow your usual plants the next year? Which plants can you grow? Explain how this relates to your experiment.
C. How are soil scientists and agronomists working to control soil salinity? What crops are best to grow in saline soils? Explain how this relates to your experiment.
Where to begin your research for articles? Start with one of the discipline specific databases in the sciences listed below.
Recommended databases:
Containing bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA provides millions of citations relating to the field of agriculture.
Includes newspapers, magazines, and journals in agriculture field.
This database offers a diverse array of full-text and indexed content covering the full spectrum of the applied sciences and computing disciplines — from acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear engineering.
Multi-disciplinary coverage of newspapers, magazines, and journals.
Spanning many academic disciplines, this database covers all subject areas.
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